Elena Litovchenko published ‘”In the arms of letters”: textual mechanisms of communication in late antique epistolary networks’ [in Russian with English abstract] in Research Result. Theoretical and Applied Linguistics 9 (2023) 159-77.
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Luciana Furbetta wrote ‘Dinamiche interazionali tra le élites e il potere a partire dalla testimonianza delle epistole di Sidonio Apollinare e Avito di Vienne’, Rivista Storica dell’Antichità 53 (2023) 297-313.
Abstract. The paper proposes some reflections on the possibility of combining the linguistic-philological analysis of late antique letter collections with the study of communication processes. In particular, we aim to study the modes of social interaction and mechanisms of action orientation within aristocratic circles between the power (with reference to the courts of barbarian kings and the ecclesiastics). The field of application chosen as a case study are the letters of Sidonius Apollinaris and Avitus of Vienne.
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Alessandro Fo reviews Giulia Marolla’s commentary on book 5, part 1, of the Correspondence in FuturoClassico 9 (2023) 251-59.
‘… la ricchezza della trattazione …’
‘… la novità di molti suoi approcci …’
‘… il rigore metodologico …’
‘… la lettura di queste pagine critiche perfino, a volte, avvincente.’
Marco Onorato wrote an interpretation of Carmen 21 De piscibus nocte captis, ‘Le tenebre e il lago. Il De piscibus nocte captis di Sidonio Apollinare e il ciclo di Avitaco’, in Orazio Portuese (ed.), Sagaci corde. Studi di filologia classica per Rosa Maria D’Angelo e Antonino Maria Milazzo, Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2023, 283-93.
Luciana Furbetta reconsiders the notion of nugae in Sidonius in ‘Nostrae vagae nugae: Sidonio Apollinare e la poesia’, in: Angelo Luceri (ed.), Profili di poesia latina tardoantica, Res Publica Litterarum Quaderni 1, Rome: RomaTre-Press, 2024, 53-86.
Available in open access here
Adding another article to his series on Sidonius, Francesco Montone has written ‘L’imperatore Eparchio Avito (455-456) nel panegirico di Sidonio Apollinare’, Salternum 50-51 (2023) 43-71.
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Laurent Lamoine has published 471. L’évêque contre le roi, Sidoine Apollinaire défend sa cité, Cette-année-là à Clermont-Ferrand, Portet-sur-Garonne: Éditions Midi-Pyrénéennes, 2023.
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Résumé:
471 : Sidoine Apollinaire est élu évêque des Arvernes. Que vient faire ce sénateur, ancien préfet de Rome, à la tête de la cité arverne ? L’homme vient se mettre au service de la résistance au roi wisigoth Euric, qui cherche à s’emparer de la ville. Malgré son énergie, son entregent et ses talents de propagandiste, Sidoine Apollinaire échoue. Après un très court exil, il rentre à Clermont pour reprendre sa pastorale. Pendant des siècles, les Clermontois ne se souviennent que du saint. Seuls le combat contre les fascismes des années noires et la découverte à Clermont-Ferrand, dans les années 1980/1990, des fragments de l’épitaphe d’un Apollinaire ont réveillé le souvenir de l’évêque combattant.
Roger Green’s TTH translation of Sidonius’ Poetry is now available in paperback.
The ancient historian Dariusz Brodka passed away on 2 January 2024 at the age of 54. Director of the Institute of Classical Philology at the Jagiellonian University in Warsaw, he was a specialist of Late Antiquity, notably publishing on Ammianus Marcellinus and Procopius of Caesarea. In the 1990s, he wrote two papers on Sidonius:
– ‘Die Idee der ‘Roma Aeterna’ in den Kaiserpanegyriken des Sidonius Apollinaris’, 1997, and
– ‘Die Weltherrschaftstopik in den Kaiserpanegyriken des Sidonius Apollinaris’, 1998.
